negligible

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
20
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈnɛɡlɪd͡ʒɪbəl/

Definition of negligible

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Able to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.
    “We found errors, but their effects were negligible.”
    “Mario Balotelli replaced Tevez but his contribution was so negligible that he suffered the indignity of being substituted himself as time ran out, a development that encapsulated a wretched 90 minutes for City and boss Roberto Mancini.”
    “Only unrealistic dreamers can suggest that Louis XVI might have accepted defeat and immediately turned himself into a constitutional monarch, even if he had been a less negligible and stupid man than he was, married to a less chicken-brained and irresponsible woman, and prepared to listen to less disastrous advisers.”

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Etymology

From negligence/negligent + -ible, as if from New Latin *negligibilis, from Latin neglegō (“to neglect”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).

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